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MAI-Thinking-1vsMiniMax M3
MiniMax M3 leads 1 of 1 shared benchmark. MiniMax M3 has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0 – 1
MiniMax M3 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
MiniMax M3
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
— · 100%
Microsoft · MiniMax
MAI-Thinking-1
Microsoft · released 2026-08-12
text
- Context
- 256K
- Max out
- 64K
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 15 · 7 core
MiniMax M3
MiniMax · released 2026-06-01
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
1 shared · 14 only MAI-Thinking-1 · 2 only MiniMax M3| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | MiniMax M3 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 1 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 84.2% ↗ | 90.9% ↗epoch | -6.7 pt | MiniMax M3 |
| Only MAI-Thinking-1 reports · 14 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 85% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | 97% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2026 | 94.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AdvancedIF | 85% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| BFCL v3 | 72% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GraphWalks (<=128K) | 90% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| HMMT February 2026 | 84.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| IFBench | 69% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MultiChallenge | 53% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 31% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only MiniMax M3 reports · 2 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | not reported | 1433.5 ↗ | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 71.1% ↗epoch | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is MAI-Thinking-1 minus MiniMax M3 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | MAI-Thinking-1 | MiniMax M3 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 256K tokens | 1M tokens | MiniMax M3 |
| Max output | 64K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | — | $0.3 ↗ | — |
| Output price / 1M | — | $1.2 ↗ | — |
| Cached input / 1M | — | $0.06 ↗ | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | — | $1.5 | — |
| Modalities | text | text · vision | MiniMax M3 |
| Released | 2026-08-12 | 2026-06-01 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 15 | 3 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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